Antiwork

I'm currently quite sick. I asked to go home an hour and a half early (my coworker would cover my shift, he was fine with it and it wouldn't affect the workflow since he literally just sit for the rest of the shift) and was told, while having chest pains and a ton of difficulty breathing (it gets bad every year when the weather changes, isn't c-19), that I need to “tough it out”. I've wanted to be switched to day shift for 3 months now because night shift is honestly taking a toll on my life. I'm 19. I'm dead tired all the time. I have no outside life. I can't do anything. The benefits here are horrible. And I dont think I could last another 2 weeks. I most likely have another job lined up but haven't gotten the call just yet. I have enough money to last…

For people who are desperately looking for alternatives to the grind, it is entirely possible to live a life without a job, or with a part-time or small job, and work much less than you do now. This life will just be different and in some ways harder than your life now. Instead of trying to make more, you try to need less. Here's a rough sketch. Scrimp and save and sacrifice for a few years at whatever the best job is you can get. Get roomates/housemates. Eat rice, beans, vegetables, and few expensive things. No unnecessary spending. However long this takes, save up around 10-15k, find a place with few building or zoning regulations (mostly rural), buy an acre or two of “shitty” land. Probably wanna stick to the Southeast if you don't want to fight harsh winters. Put up a yurt. Heat with firewood. Plant some fast growing…

I work for an outsourcing housekeeping company in NYC. They pay minimum wage so obviously we don’t have the best people working here. Sometimes people are late for work or do a no-call-no-show and it makes more extra work for people or the company has to run around looking for a last minute replacement. To stay on top of things, they’ve created an app that tells them how long it takes each employee to get to work. Employees have to “check in” on the app before they leave their house so the company knows that they are going to be to work on time. If employees don’t “check in” before the time it takes to get to work the app gives employees a message that our shift has been cancelled and they’re find a replacement. (If your commute is 30 minutes you need to check in 30 minutes before your…

Backstory: I used to do technical support for a mortgage startup. Typical grind culture, “unlimited PTO” but taking it made you a villain, beers at work but staying all night, mid-20s COO with a Jaguar, the works. One day after tons of prep work, they got way less VC funding than the previous round, and they orchestrated a series of manipulations and lies to cut off employee communication and then laid off 42 employees (out of 106) in a surprise 9am Teams call after falsely closing the office for the day. I was one of three IT employees and they cut me off from my accounts while I was trying to figure out why Slack was down (they'd shut it down intentionally). 5 months later… Today I got a call intended for my previous manager. It appears that their Zoom account – which they didn't need, didn't set up as…

I joined this sub a while back and have sung its praises to others and appreciate the solidarity and perspectives expressed herein – BUT – I’ve recently stumbled into a dream situation for myself so I haven’t had much to post or discuss about “our” collective struggles. The short version is I lived like so many of us for a long while – woefully underpaid and always under stress about money. Finally, as I entered my 40’s I got a pay bump big enough to allow me to at least live stress free. Not jet-skis and hookers, just auto-draft bill pay with no fear that the water won’t get paid. So that was the situation for a bit, COVID came and we all went home where productivity actually increased for my division and all was well enough. They made clear there was no plan that the WFH would change, we’d…

So I had a work injury recently, my lower back was in so much painful I couldn't even get out of bed or walk downstairs or drive. I called it in and the first thing they did was send me to go see “their” in house doctor. I some how managed to get to the dam place waited 2hrs in line to only have me wait in another room for another 2hrs (I feel asleep at this point). At last the doctor walks in and sees me for not even 5mins tells me to take some pain killers and go back to work. What kind of treatment is this bullshit!!! So I decided to go see a chiropractor that same day and they were super professional and treated me that day. I wasn't 100 but the pain was bare able. Fast forward 6 months later I got a bill from…

Out of the blue my company decided, after 1.5 years of being reassured that my position is not required or expected to be “on call” during off hours, that I now need to be on call on weekends. I asked to be compensated for the change and was told there's no money in the budget. I immediately started looking for other jobs. I'm still at the same company (with a few potential options I'm waiting to hopefully hear back from 🤞🤞) and was sent the PTO policy for my upcoming planned leave. I planned out my leave based on their policy, and then was told, “oh, actually we don't do that thing the policy says we do. The policy changed when we switched PTO management systems.” So they literally sent me an inaccurate, out of date policy, and it means absolutely nothing because they get to change it up whenever…

Boomers do understand inflation and the stagnant wages, contrary to this sub’s belief. But by criticising the millennials and how entitled they are, they bask themselves in a better light and how their “hard work” back then have earned them what they rightfully deserved. Like the housing back then which has appreciated in the millions. And they can justify their success has nothing to do with the change in era, capitalism and income inequality. In short, they make themselves look successful by putting down the younger generation.